Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:26822 comp.unix.internals:996 Path: utzoo!mnetor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!davecb From: davecb@yunexus.YorkU.CA (David Collier-Brown) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.internals,alt.unix.wizards Subject: Re: rcp behavior Message-ID: <17299@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Date: 9 Nov 90 14:20:00 GMT References: <1990Nov5.192620.1467@nbc1.ge.com> <1990Nov8.231935.3900@Think.COM> Organization: York U. Computing Services Lines: 23 barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes: >"rcp srcfile host:destfile" is effectively equivalent to > rsh host "cat >destfile" If the local system has all of the source file in its NFS cache, and the >cache doesn't time out too soon, this should work. Interesting... I hadn't thought about the effects of caching when I said for i in *; do rcp foo my_Sun3_280:/tmp/foo & done I was disappointed and a bit puzzled when multiple copies of a non-zero-size foo produced a zero-size /tmp/foo. --dave ps: I was also bemused when my perfmeter window turned solid black - I should have suspected an r-command would be expensive (:-)). -- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@Nexus.YorkU.CA, ...!yunexus!davecb or 72 Abitibi Ave., | {toronto area...}lethe!dave or just Willowdale, Ontario, | postmaster@{nexus.}yorku.ca CANADA. 416-223-8968 | work phone (416) 736-5257 x 22075